<p>Thanks, first....Really appreciate ur help!!</p>
<p>Stats:
School Doesn't Rank.
GPA: weighted: 4.0X, unweighted: no idea. Upward trends.
SAT: 2130. CR: 650. Math:780. W:700 (retaking in October, aiming for 700 CR)
SAT II: 800-Chinese & Math IIC, 770 USH
AP: 5: Bio and USH. Senior year: Calc AB, Stats, Euro.</p>
<p>EC's:
Key club (10-11)
Chess Club (10-12, Co-Vice Presidents 11)
FCCLA (10-12, Co-presidents 11)
Pingpong Intramural (10-12, Principal Councilor 11)
NHS and Mu Alpha Theta (11-12)
Bowling JV (9)</p>
<p>8th Garden States Table Tennis Championship: Semi-finalist, HS Girls Event
NJ FCCLA Leadership Conference : Competition 3rd Place
National Merit Scholarship Commended Students
Volunteer at Senior Center and Youth Council: more than 100 hrs.</p>
<p>Recommendation Letters:
Counselor: Don't know.
Teachers: Very good, i think
Personal Essay: will be very good.</p>
<p>Personal Info:
A rising senior from NJ. Asian Female. Came to US 4 1/2 years ago.</p>
<p>I really want to go to Cornell's AEM. Applying ED... or u can suggest some other colleges for me.... thx</p>
<p>We couldn't really tell you because grades differ widely across high schools and class rank is used to equalize them among high schools, but your school doesn't have class rank. I've met many valedictorians and salutatorians here.</p>
<p>If you have close to straight A's then you should be good.</p>
<p>Lucaskhan, thx, but did u apply to Cornell? and did u get in?
yeah, i will definitely put a lot of efforts into my essay, and i think my teacher recs are good.</p>
<p>masha#1: Since Cornell's AEM is moving up the ranking each year, its student quality is rising significantly as well. You should keep that in mind. That means, you should improve your SAT Reasoning. Your SAT IIs are solid, and there is no need to retake. </p>
<p>I recommend you to eliminate Key Club and Bowling JV unless you have leadership positions in those ECs, since to me (and consequently maybe to Admission officers) you have not been very active in those ECs. Elimination of these activities will make your application look more focus. Hope my recommendations are helpful. Best wishes! :D</p>
<p>Since you are interested in business, I recommend you to search up UPenn, UMichigan - Ann Arbor, UC - Berkeley, MIT, University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon (if you are also interested in computer science). There are myriad of colleges that have excellent business faculty. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>Also, you need to watch out how you define "good essay." I have seen the so-called "good essays" and they are completely rubbish, and not revealing at all. Just a friendly reminder ^.^~</p>
<p>thank you, Shifu Yoda. yeah, i will be extra careful with my essay, hopefully it will be personal and revealing. yeah, i know CR is now my major problems but it's not really very easy for me, but still needs to study hard.</p>
<p>thx, everyone, but i still wonder if AEM is a pure business program or is it more towards science and agriculture? I visited its website a few times, but it is strong in Finance?</p>
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thx, everyone, but i still wonder if AEM is a pure business program or is it more towards science and agriculture? I visited its website a few times, but it is strong in Finance?
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<p>AEM is a pure business program. However, according to the website, it strongly encourages you to take agriculture courses.</p>
<p>I'm in AEM, and nobody "strongly encouraged" me to take agriculture courses. I'm too lazy to look at the website, however, in practice I have never heard of an AEM advisor strongly encouraging non-agriculture majors to take ag courses. </p>
<p>masha - I think it looks good that you are taking both calc and stats... however, does your school offer calc BC? With your SAT II Math scores, I wonder why you are not taking the most challenging calc, unless it's the highest level your school offers.</p>
<p>Hydrangea, thx first. yeah about Calc BC, even though my SAT I and II math score are good, but my school math grade are not that great, i got B's in last and this year's math honors classes. it's kinda my fault, but o well.
But i know i can do well in math if i really study hard, and i want to take BC, but counselor won't let me, saying i already doubled up in two ap math courses, and my grades are not that strong. do you think the Bs in my math class will hurt my chance? thx</p>
<p>i am not a student who is strong in science, do u guys think it will hurt my chance, since CALS is kinda science and agriculture college.
and to people who are in AEM or got into AEM, what did u write in ur college essay, like the one for your specific college within cornell? i am kinda stuck on that.....</p>
<p>i'm not strong in math or science, but i still challenged myself by taking harder classes, ie: calc bc, physics b. mainly, colleges want to see that you're challenging yourself, but not to the point of exhaustion - get decent grades in those classes and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>i would recommend that you take calc bc though, because AEM (if you want to do accounting/finance) is more math-based than, say, ILR or Hotel Management.</p>
<p>as for the essay, it's more of why AEM/CALS is a good fit for you - you can't write what other people have written. if you have to do that, then AEM isn't for you.</p>
<p>I think the essay wanted us to write about improving life or something like that so in my essay I wrote about how the skills you learn in business can be used to help other people, only I wrote it more eloquently.</p>
<p>I thought that they emphasized bio more than any other science, either way I didn't take AP bio and that wasnt a dealbreaker</p>